Home to a sub-surface ocean, Saturn‘s moon Enceladus is a fascinating candidate for life in our solar system. As it orbits Saturn, plumes periodically shoot out long surface features known Keep reading
Tag: Saturn
Probing Saturn’s Interior
Saturn’s rings are one of the most iconic sights in our solar system, and scientists are using them to learn more about the planet they surround. Until recently, scientists believed Keep reading
Farewell, Cassini!
Tomorrow one of the most prolific and beloved spacecraft missions will come to an end when the Cassini spacecraft makes its final plunge into Saturn. After nearly 20 years in Keep reading
Titan’s Bubbly Islands
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is a fascinating world with remarkable similarities to our own. It is the only other world we know of with stable bodies of liquid at its Keep reading
Saturnian Clouds
It may look like an oil slick, but the photo above actually shows the clouds of Saturn. The false-color composite image reveals the gas giant in infrared, at wavelengths longer Keep reading
Fluids Round-up – 7 December 2013
Fluids round-up time! I missed out last weekend because of the holidays, so this is a long list of links. There’s a lot of really great stuff here, including some Keep reading
Saturn’s Great White Spot
We’ve touched a couple times on Saturnian storms, but this NASA video gives a great overview of the Great White Spot, a storm that appeared in late 2010. Gauging the Keep reading
Saturn’s Polar Vortex
Nothing quite compares to the beauty of fluid dynamics on astronomical scales. What you see here are raw photographs of recent storms at Saturn’s north pole. The recent change in Keep reading
Portrait of Gas Giants
[original media no longer available] Here raw footage from NASA’s Cassini and Voyager missions has been combined in a stunning portrait of Saturn and Jupiter. Watch as tiny moons create Keep reading
Saturn’s Storm Stretches All the Way Around
This picture captured by Cassini in February shows a storm on Saturn stretching all the way around the planet. Unlike Earth and Jupiter, which have numerous storms virtually all the Keep reading